Invisible
Subtitle: the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
By: Stephen L. Carter
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781250121974
Subjects: African American families; Family; African American authors; Biography; African American women lawyers
Description: "She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white male, she devised the strategy that in the 1930s sent Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison. She achieved so much--but what could she have accomplished if not for barriers of race and gender?..."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-350) and index.